Nerve anastomosis, which seeks to provide a new channel for the transmission of motor impulses to the paralysed muscles, has as yet a restricted field of application-for example, the tibial and peroneal nerves may be anastomosed when the muscles supplied by one of them are paralysed.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
From the same point there descended to the earth a hollow cone of roots, interwoven and anastomosed, especially at the upper parts, in the same manner as those of the boiling-house wall, but forming towards the bottom only three or four flattened irregular columns.
"The Romance of Natural History, Second Series"
Philip Henry Gosse